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Artist: DNA ProductionsShow: DNA's Stand-Up Mash-Up: The Best of Bay Area comedy

Five unique comedy shows featuring the best stand-up comics in the Bay Area, and this year, introducing some of LA’s finest talent.

DNA’s Stand-Up Mash-Up Friday July 11th 9:30 pmA Special Night of Musical ComedyDRENNON DAVIS From his animated series on MTV, The Long Legs, to his appearance on the new Comedy Central show Adam DeVine's House Party to his spectacular appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012---Drennon Davis is on fire. Tonight he will be performing part of his Imaginary Radio program—with surprise guests. "If Davis isn't the world’s foremost radio impressionist he's definitely tuned somewhere near the top The Imaginary Radio Program may just be the most inspiring show about what you can create when your entire world revolves around radio, and not just your genitals." Fest Magazine

Special Guest: NERVOUS ENERGY Genetically engineered in a lab on a lonely hilltop in Germany, Nervous Energy has been busting out ditties influenced by bizarro pop culture and cheap keyboards since his scientific inception in 1983—but, most of these songs only played in his head. . . UNTIL NOW.

DNA’s Stand-Up Mash-Up Saturday July 12th 6:30 pmAn Intimate Night with Three of the Bay Area’s Funniest People.Trevor Hill, Jesse Hett and Brendan Lynch are three of the funniest people in the Bay Area. Trevor has toured the UK, Brendan just filmed his first Comedy Central appearance and Jesse is still looking for his first big break---could tonight be it!!

Headliner Trevor Hill: Trevor Hill is a stand-up comedian who sleeps in San Francisco and is awake in a variety of locations. He has performed at SF Sketchfest, the Great American Comedy Festival, Sacramento Comedy Festival, Shits & Giggles Comedy Fest, Minneapolis’ 10,000 Laughs Fest, as well as clubs and theaters throughout the United States and England. Trevor’s comedy has appeared on KOFY TV and has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, SF Bay Guardian and Washington Post.

DNA’s Stand-Up Mash-Up Tuesday July 15th 8:30 pmAn Electric Night with the Best Stand-Up of the Bay Area and Los Angeles (and a robot). Headliner Grant Cotter, from LA, has appeared on numerous TV shows including, "The Henry Cho Comedy Show" on GAC, "1,000 Ways To Die" on SpikeTV, "All-Stars" on MTV, candid appearances on "TMZ" and on the Comedy Time Network's "Man Up Stand Up". His stand up can be heard on Sirius/XM National Lampoon Comedy Radio. He was a recurring guest co-host on Indie1031.com's 'Space Invaded Radio', 'Wino Wednesday's' and can currently be heard weekly on the Cool Party Guy's Podcast 'Stand-ups Sit Down'.

Filling out the bill are Kevin O’Shea (SF), Joey Devine (SF) and Billy Bonnell (LA). And, special guest Maxwell Robotwitz: Built by a mysterious genius engineer during the 1930’s, Maxwell was to be a statesman, a diplomat and a liaison between humans and robots. Held back by the human’s shallow contempt and distrust of talking metal boxes, Maxwell has revolted becoming the dirtiest robot comic in America.

DNA’s Stand-Up Mash-Up Friday July 18th 10 pmThe Hardest Working Comedy Group on Earth. The Pawns of Comedy: Performing in the Pawns of Comedy will be Santa Cruz anti-hero, DNA, along with Bay area comedy stars Ben Del Castillo, Chad Opitz and Butch Escobar. From auditioning for NBC's Last Comic Standing, to touring the country doing stand-up comedy to opening for "big name" comics, the Pawns of Comedy are the real deal. Genuine stand-up comics on the front lines of the comedy war, making the world a better place one laugh at a time. The Pawns agree that by making people laugh, they are saving lives!

DNA’s Stand-Up Mash-Up Saturday July 19th 10 pmA Fantastically Funny Evening with Bay Area Comedy. Headliner Matt Lieb is a comedian, writer, actor and street musician/Bone Thugs-N-Harmony cover band. He was named “one of my all-time favorite Bay Area performers” by the award-winning SF blog Courting Comedy and described as “extremely talented, charmingly dark and genuinely pleasant.” He won 2nd place at the 2004 KZSC Comedy Competition, but the guy who won 1st place no longer does comedy so Matt basically won 1st place. He also won 1st place at the 2013 Rooster-T-Feathers Comedy Competition, which was very validating for him. Matt Lieb has opened for many legendary performers including W. Kamau Bell, Ryan Papazian, Jeff Anaya and 3rd Eye Blind. He is also Glenn Danzig’s neighbor and Emmy-winner Camryn Manheim is a family friend. He writes for Filmdrunk.

Filling out the bill are Bay Area femme fatales: Eloisa Bravo and Mary Van Note.